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Holly Maguigan
BornMay 29, 1945
Buffalo, New York, U.S.
DiedNovember 15, 2023
New York, New York, U.S.
Occupation(s)Lawyer, law school professor

Holly Maguigan (May 29, 1945 – November 15, 2023) was an American criminal defense lawyer and professor of law. She was a leader in the legal movement that promotes the self-defense defense in domestic violence cases.[1][2]

Early life and education[edit]

Maguigan was born in Buffalo, New York, and raised in Chester, Virginia, the daughter of Harvey Maguigan and Virginia Smith Maguigan.[1] She earned a bachelor's degree in history from Swarthmore College in 1966, and a master's degree from the University of California, Berkeley, in 1969.[3] She earned her law degree from the University of Pennsylvania in 1972.[1]

Career[edit]

Maguigan worked in the public defenders' office in Philadelphia in the early 1970s, then entered private practice. From 1987 to 2021, she was on the faculty at the New York University School of Law. Her 1991 article for the University of Pennsylvania Law Review on domestic violence and self-defense[4] is considered an important data-based argument for the rights of women defendants.[5]

Maguigan was co-president of the Society of American Law Teachers (SALT) in 2004.[1][6] She served on the boards of MADRE and the William Kunstler Fund for Racial Justice.[5] In 1993, she and other advocates for battered women were honored by the New York City chapter the National Lawyers Guild.[7]

Publications[edit]

  • "When the DA Bungles a Case" (1987, with Rick Finkelstein)[8]
  • "Battered Women and Self-Defense: Myths and Misconceptions in Current Reform Proposals" (1991)[4]
  • "Cultural Evidence and Male Violence: Are Feminist and Multiculturalist Reformers on a Collision Course in Criminal Courts?" (1995)[9]
  • "Will Prosecutions for Female Genital Mutilation Stop the Practice in the U.S.?" (1998)[10]
  • "It's time to move beyond 'Battered woman syndrome'" (1998, review essay)[11]
  • "Wading into Professor Schneider's 'Murky Middle Ground' between Acceptance and Rejection of Criminal Justice Responses to Domestic Violence" (2002)[12]
  • "US Policy on 'Female Genital Mutilation': Threat of Economic Pressure Internationally, Enactment of Criminal Sanctions at Home" (2002)[13]
  • "Explaining without pathologizing: Testimony on battering and its effects" (2005, with Sue Osthoff)[14]

Personal life[edit]

Maguigan married twice. She married Thomas Wright in 1969; he died in 1974. She had a daughter, Miranda, with political consultant Paul Tully.[2][15] She married lawyer Abdeen Jabara in 1997. Maguigan died in 2023, at the age of 78, in New York City.[1]

References[edit]

  1. ^ a b c d e Risen, Clay (November 28, 2023). "Holly Maguigan, Who Fought for the Rights of Battered Women, Dies at 78". The New York Times.
  2. ^ a b Langer, Emily (2023-11-22). "Holly Maguigan, who gave battered women a defense in court, dies at 78". Washington Post. ISSN 0190-8286. Retrieved 2024-02-01.
  3. ^ Smith, Michael Steven (2019). Lawyers for the Left: In the Courts, in the Streets and On the Air (1 ed.). OR Books. p. 187. doi:10.2307/j.ctvg2520s.29. ISBN 978-1-68219-195-8.
  4. ^ a b Maguigan, Holly (1991). "Battered Women and Self-Defense: Myths and Misconceptions in Current Reform Proposals". University of Pennsylvania Law Review. 140 (2): 379–486. doi:10.2307/3312349. ISSN 0041-9907.
  5. ^ a b "Honoring Holly Maguigan". Center for Constitutional Rights. November 21, 2023. Retrieved 2024-06-01.
  6. ^ Maguigan, Holly; Juárez, Beto (May 2004). "Co-Presidents' Column" (PDF). SALT Equalizer. 2004 (2): 1.
  7. ^ NLG-NYC Spring Fling 2019, event program (June 2019): 2.
  8. ^ Maguigan, Holly; Finkelstein, Rick (1987-10-14). "When the DA Bungles a Case". Newsday. p. 68. Retrieved 2024-06-01 – via Newspapers.com.
  9. ^ Maguigan, Holly. "Cultural evidence and male violence: Are feminist and multiculturalist reformers on a collision course in criminal courts?" NYUL rev. 70 (1995): 36.
  10. ^ Maguigan, Holly. "Will prosecutions for female genital mutilation stop the practice in the US?" Temp. Pol. & Civ. Rts. L. Rev. 8 (1998): 391.
  11. ^ Maguigan, Holly (January 1998). "Review essay / It's time to move beyond "Battered woman syndrome"". Criminal Justice Ethics. 17 (1): 50–57. doi:10.1080/0731129X.1998.9992049. ISSN 0731-129X.
  12. ^ Maguigan, Holly. "Wading into Professor Schneider's Murky Middle Ground Between Acceptance and Rejection of Criminal Justice Responses to Domestic Violence." Am. UJ Gender Soc. Pol'y & L. 11 (2002): 427.
  13. ^ Maguigan, Holly. "US Policy on'Female Genital Mutilation': Threat of Economic Pressure Internationally, Enactment of Criminal Sanctions at Home." Moral Imperialism: A Critical Anthology (2002): 241-254.
  14. ^ Osthoff, Sue, and Holly Maguigan. "Explaining without pathologizing: Testimony on battering and its effects." Current controversies on family violence (2005): 225-240.
  15. ^ Toner, Robin (1992-09-25). "Paul Tully Is Dead at 48; Top Democratic Strategist". The New York Times. ISSN 0362-4331. Retrieved 2024-06-01.

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